Retrial looms for Constance Marten and Mark Gordon as jury is dismissed following £10m trial

Aristocrat Constance Marten and boyfriend Mark Gordon are facing a retrial after a jury was discharged from reaching verdicts following a five month trial that cost the taxpayer up to £10m. Marten, 37, and Gordon, 50, were accused of taking two month old Victoria to sleep in a tent in the South Downs in Brighton to escape social workers who had taken their four previous children into care. A national manhunt began when the baby’s placenta was found inside their…